Class of 1918
The data blanks that were included with the fall issue of "The Roar" are beginning to drift in, as this is typed early in October. It's not going to be long before the class directory is a reality.
Dr. Curtis Tripp, 416 County St., New Bedford, Mass., keeps a promise he made at the secretaries' meeting in Hanover last spring and comes through with a little dirt. Thusly: "Shorty Alden dropped in tosee me about three months ago and sincethat time has been quite ill and confinedto a hospital. Tom Groves came by aftera day at the International Yacht Races. Hewas the same old Tom with his tonguewagging as freely as ever. He is doing freelance writing at the present time, andwarns us about an approaching issue of Esquire, which will carry a poem guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes. Tom isstill living in Centerville, Mass., andthreatens to attend the 20th On arecent trip to Chicago I had a couple oflong visits with Mike Davies, who is stillin the heating business and still complaining about the depression."
Amos Blandin, member of the law firm of Murchie, Murchie, & Blandin, in Concord, N. H., is judge advocate of the Concord Post of the American Legion. Jim Langley, a fellow townsman of his, is publisher of the city's only newspaper, member of the New England Planning Commission, and chairman of the New Hampshire State Planning Board.
Mel Weston, partner in the law firm of Powers & Hall, 30 Federal St., Boston, submits this interesting brief: "You mightperhaps be interested in the extent towhich this firm has been, so to speak, aDartmouth firm. You will see from theletterhead that it was founded by Mr.Samuel L. Powers, who was at one time atrustee of the College. The firm was originally Powers, Hall, & Jones, the othertwo original partners being E. K. Hall,who died recently, and Matt B. Jones, another well-known alumnus, who is justnow retiring as president of the New England Tel. & Tel. Co. In the office todaythere are Leland Powers 1910, Leon F.Sargent 1923, and myself I amafraid I am not a very fruitful source of1918 gossip. I wish, however, that I couldthink up a good crack to take at George B.(treat 'em rough) Row ell, local barrister,who had the other side of a case with menot long ago and for whose benefit I amcherishing a few wounds, not particularlywell healed, in a friendly but revengefulspirit. Within the next week or two I expect to argue my first case before the UnitedStates Supreme Court. The day beforeyesterday I drove by the 'Daniel WebsterHouse' in Hanover; it remains to be seenwhether that was a good way to gather inspiration."
And here are some recent changes of address: Byron M. Noone, occupation salesman, lives at 465 West 23d St., N. Y. C. Clarence H. Mills is now a teacher at the A. & T. College in Greensboro, N. C. John E. Rosnell is residing at Beacon, N. Y., and is a chemist with the Texas Company. Lewis H. Lee maintains he is engaged in advertising at Room 4108, Chanin Bldg., N. Y., and resides at 17 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye, N. Y. Harold C. Day is with the American Radiator Co. in Buffalo as branch manager, living at the Buffalo Athletic Club. Donald L. Barr is a bond salesman with Dick & Merle-Smith, go Pine St., New York, and is one of those Garden City commuters. David L. Skinner lists his business as "investments," resides on the Post Road in Rye, and hangs his hat with Brown, Harriman & Co., 63 Wall St.
George Kapff, Arlington, Mass., educator and bachelor, visited Puerto Rico this past summer. Stan Jones is with Lord & Thomas, New York advertising of course. He manhandles his typewriter as follows: "Occasionally see Earley darting about the buildings, pockets bulging with urine-analysisflasks, and a wild light in his eyes. He hasbuilt a house up in Woodstock, N. Y., anartists' colony, and wears a smock whilehe paints his outdoor privy. Hear they haveput John Martinez in a glass case at theDartmouth Club a permanent exhibit ofthe evils of alcoholism. He moves so littlethat nobody notices the difference anyway. Blimp Morey is out of the nurse'shands at last and is not sure whether helikes it or not."
Horton and Elizabeth Chandler (Concord, N. H.) have just announced the birth of a daughter, Rosemary Beal. Al Lucier, our own kid himself and mayor of Nashua, is one of six mayors under the age of forty listed in "Who's Who of American Young Men."
Georgie Davis, New Rochelle mortician, took quite a trip during October. With his charming wife and daughter he traveled to California, attended a convention, then planned to return by way of the Canal.
It seems that Harv Hood is not the only Eighteener in the milk and ice cream business. Dan Gray is connected with the Lorain Creamery Co. at Lorain, Ohio, and, incidentally, has a brand-new baby son, and a daughter five years old Ed Dwyer is sales manager of Zeese Wilkinson Co., lithographers of Long Island City Ed Ross, writing from Brooklyn, where he walks over the bridge to Wall St., and the National City Bank each day, tells us that George (Doc) McBride is now married and living at 2643 Hillegas Ave., Berkeley, Calif.
A nice note from Lew Pounds (at last), but well save this for the next issue. Lew resides in Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, and is a certified public account ant with the firm of Boyce, Hughes, & Farrell, no William St., N. Y The blanks from the last "Roar" continue to come in—looks as though we might have a nice column in the next issue. Your Secretary has got to go through the motions of earning a living, so here's the sign-off!
Secretary, 812 Norris Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
